M Quotes
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“Marriage, at first, may seem like it will last forever. But surprisingly, a lot of the times, it shatters easily. Like porcelain.”
“Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.”
“Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.”
“Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.”
“Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer”
Source: The Power of the Family
“Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.”
“Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.”
“marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is served by the present tendency to put these things all on one side as 'Woman's World.”
Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work
“Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.”
Source: Federico Fellini: Interviews
“Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.”
“Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.”
“Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.”
“Marriage, in my culture, has nothing to do with romance. It's a matter of logic. If Mr. and Mrs. Ahmadi like Mr. and Mrs. Nejari, then their children should get married. On the other hand, if the parents don't like each other, but the children do, well, this is where sad poetry comes from.”
“Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.”
“Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.”
“Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.”
Source: Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
“Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.”
Source: Mammon and the black goddess
“Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.”
Source: Lost in a Good Book
“Marriage, my dear, is not suicide.”
Source: The Bungalow: A Novel
“Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.”
“Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.”
“Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."”
“Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.”
“Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.”
“Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Marriage. . . is the most glorious and most exalting principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ. No ordinance is of more importance and none more sacred and more necessary to the eternal joy of man. Faithfulness to the marriage covenant brings the fullest joy here and glorious rewards hereafter.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?”
“Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.”
Source: Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel
“Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.”
“Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.”
Source: Four Plays
“Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.”
Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
“Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.”
“Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.”
“Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.”
“Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".”
“Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.”
“Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra
“Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done.”
“Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other!”
“Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.”
“Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.”
“Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.”
“Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!”
“Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.”
“Marriages and relationships can be great experiences and can help a person grow and give them a chance to better themselves, whether they last or not. ... Would you consider a close relationship with a friend for several years a failure when they moved to another country and you never saw them again?”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer--comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout the life of a marriage, just as the seasons repeat themselves in nature.”
“Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.”
“Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.”
“Marriages are made in heaven, and divorces are made on Earth.”